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The final fundraising numbers are in, and the University of Maryland, College Park had a very good year. The campus, which recently joined the Big Ten athletic conference, raised more than $203 million in donations in fiscal 2015; it had ...

A new federal grant will help place students in government cybersecurity jobs by paying for their studies at the Johns Hopkins University. The school’s Information Security Institute received a five-year, $2.2 million award from the National Science Foundation to pay ...

The Johns Hopkins Hospital has tied for third place on this year’s ranking of the nation’s top hospitals from U.S. News & World Report. Once the juggernaut of the ranking, taking the No. 1 spot 22 times in the first ...

Like a feeding frenzy in which the sharks start biting each other, a Tweet from the official account of Johns Hopkins University prompted groans and mockery Friday…including from another Hopkins Twitter feed. It all went down something like this: a ...

The Healthy Harbor Initiative isn’t looking to reinvent the water wheel in Canton; they’re just looking to finance it. And with contributions this month of $11,680 from the Baltimore Water Taxi and $10,000 each from the Canton Car Wash and ...

A new tool that will allow the pediatric emergency team at Howard County General Hospital to more easily locate patients’ veins was financed with a little help from pastry. The vein viewer uses near-infrared light to capture an image of ...

Seventeen million gigabytes. That’s the storage capacity of a new, high-capacity, 19,000-processor computing center set to open later this month at the edge of the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Campus. The facility, known as the Maryland Advance Research Computing Center, ...

It’s only a myth that John Hancock scrawled his famous signature so large so that King George could read it. But a new study says that company leaders trying to replicate Hancock’s efforts with their own autographs might produce financial ...

Newly-minted University System of Maryland Chancellor Bob Caret took office Wednesday, and offered a brief glimpse of his immediate priorities for the office. “I will initially focus heavily on student success, academic innovation and economic development,” Caret said in a ...

A group of recent Johns Hopkins University engineering graduates is trying to crack down on prescription drug abuse with a safe-like, fingerprint-activated pill dispenser. The four students, all 22 years old, spent their senior years designing the device in response to ...